Inter - the European champions in selling tickets; NOT

Today we started once again early to get back to Italy to catch our football games. The plan was to go over the mountains but around 2000 m of altitude our rental Lancia proved to be too poorly equipped for icy roads. So we actually got stuck. After a while of NASA-level reasoning we managed to turn our car around and return back to KG for regular autostrada travelling to Milan.

There was a serious accident on the highway and as we got to Giuseppe Meazza it was about 45 minutes to kick off. This proved to be at least 45 min too late as the Inter ticket sales happened to be absolutely SHIT. Since their internet ticket sales was the same, I have to say that as one of the biggest clubs in Europe, Inter lives in the stone age of ticket selling. Some organised system and additional resources at the stadium would be essential to be able to serve the audience (who are paying the ridiculous wages of the players). So, the result was that after 90 minutes of fighting in the queue we got 3 tickets to catch the end of the first half. And to complete our initial feeling about Italian organising capabilities, we learned that the Juventus game we were supposed go and watch was played at the same time with ongoing Inter-game as we had information that implied Juventus game would have started only 2045hrs in the evening. So the main day of our trip did not quite match up with our plans. Well, now we are heading for Turin for some dinner and relaxing since there is no more pressure with the schedule.